travel

A collection of twelve narratives by British palaeontologists about their work in various places around the world.

Articles originally published in "National Geographic" chart the expansion of travel by automobile and railroad in the 1920s and its effects on American society.

Celebrates the phenomenon of adult fans of LEGO products, elevating the toy into a pop-culture icon, art medium, and key factor in robotics technology, as the author copes with becoming a master model builder and a father.

Details the experiences of the author and his college friend during their one hundred and ninety-two hour journey across the United States--from Vermont to California--in a car that has been modified to run on vegetable oil.

The story of a troubled fourteen-year-old boy who, upon leaving an abusive homelife, lives on the edge of society, struggling to find himself.

Sydney Parade, a political scientist who has left home and family to join a foreign-aid operation in Saigon in 1965, becomes trapped in a moral crossfire when he begins to discover the unsettling depths of the Vietnam conflict.

A Connecticut Yankee, a nineteenth-century mechanic suffers a blow to the head and wakes up in King Arthur's Britain.

Eleanor Roosevelt agrees to attend a meeting in 1941 at which a French/German resistance group plans to outline its plot to assassinate Hitler, but she realizes there is more going on than meets the eye when the German representative to the assembly is found murdered at their supposedly secret meeting site.